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Yep- a search on npmjs shows not quite a dozen tasks for Broccoli while Grunt has hundreds of results. Not that quantity necessarily == quality but when it comes to a task runner, I need to, you know, run tasks.

Definitely awesome that people are trying to optimize in the devops space but just not sure I could be convinced to switch to something that isn't at least somewhat mature.

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I think the trouble comes in that 3/4 or more of Grunt plugins are things that really have very little reason to be plugins in the first place. Given how flexible node really is, and how npm tasks work, I'm more an more inclined to simply having a ./scripts/ directory with a file per task registered in package.json, so I can simply `npm run taskname` and have it correlate to `./scripts/taskname.js|coffee` ...

With node.js as a host environment, it's easy enough to do pretty much whatever you want as a script/task, and is pretty much cross platform, and works well. Shell scripts come close, but ignore the elephant in the room (Windows).

For the record, I'm biased as all hell, like node.js and JavaScript in general.

> Shell scripts come close, but ignore the elephant in the room (Windows).

I use mingw and make, never had a problem on windows and it's not like mingw is heavy to download. Most people use git and git comes with a bash on windows too, so 0 excuses to learn shell scripts.

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